Galena +1 today. Wow, this was really hard for me. I think I did not eat well enough beforehand, and I bonked towards the end of the first interval and needed to take on carbs. I finished the first interval, just, and then dropped the intensity to 90% for the rest of the workout. I’m torn between being disappointed for bonking and needing to turn the wick down, and being pleased for actually finishing in modified form. I think I’ll go with pleased. This was very hard for me.

I did Ericsson this morning. Looking at some of your screenshots I am far less accurate in maintaining the required power compared to a lot of you. I’m guessing that’s either down to experience as I’m relatively new to power based trainer air you are using smart trainers

Very fun! But I sort of misunderstood how TR works and what was going to happen. My FTP was just a lowball estimate so the beginning was very easy. I remembered reading about the 19th minute on the forums here, so I figured that would be the end and tried to really turn it on. But it obviously wasn’t the end. Then I figured if I missed the target power the workout would end, but it doesn’t. I figured out how to stop everything and rolled off the trainer.

Would it be a good idea to retest before starting the real work or should I just wait and see if things are a little too easy? Not sure if I managed to throw the ramp calculations off at all.

Would it be a good idea to retest before starting the real work or should I just wait and see if things are a little too easy?

Do you have any basis for what your FTP ‘should’ be separately from this test? If you have a solid training history and a good idea of what your FTP is then I’d recommend setting your FTP to that and carrying on with your plan.

If you really don’t know a semi-accurate baseline number then definitely increase your FTP a bit over the setting you had going into the ramp test and retest again the next day (you shouldn’t carry a ton of fatigue from just this test).

You don’t want to start a ramp test with a drastically too low FTP as it will negatively impact your results

For the record - if you break (stop pedaling) in the test at 19:30 that means you will have maintained the same FTP that you had at the start of the test - so if you are expecting a significant increase or decrease you will either under or overshoot that time. The test will keep going until you break - there is no ‘end’ until you stop pedaling